The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8176. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOREST FIRES Committee Named To Probe Alaska Fisheries BLAND WILL | HEAD THOSE MAKING TRIP Five DemoEré?s, Two Re- publicans Will Com- | pose Study Party WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. — Four of the members of the House Mer- chant Marine subcommittee who will v Alaska for a six weeks’ study of the fisheries accompany- | ing Chairman Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia, are Representatives Am- brose J. Kennedy, Democrat, Mary- land; Mon C. Wallgren, Democrat, Washington; Frank W. Boykin Democrat, Alabama; George N.| Seger, Republican, New Jersey. Representative Lindsay C. War- ren, Democrat, North Carolina, who expected Lo accompany the group,‘ said that he would be unable tof do so. Representative J. Hardin Peterson, Democrat, Florida, may take his place on the committee. Representative Richard J. Welch, Republican, California, ranking| minority member of the Merchantfll Marine committee, has not defi- nitely accepted his place on the subcommittee, If he declines, Rep-| resentative James C. Oliver, Re- publican, Maine, may be asked to take the other Republican assign- ment. &b There WIII"bé"'seven members of | the committee, including the chair- man, five Democtats and two Re-| Ppublicans, ‘ . SO e INVADING MONGOLS| REPORTED REPULSED MANCHOUKUO AREA Eight Hundred Sharp‘ shoofers Engaged in | Two-hour Battle | TOKYO, Aug. 8—A Doemi dis- patch from Singking reports that 800 invading Mongol sharpshooters have been repulsed by Japanese- Manchoukuo forces. The battle lasted for two hours.| It was fought near the confluence | of the Khalka and Khortsen riv- ers on the western boundary of| Manchoukuo ALASKA QUE JUEENS "TAKE SEATTLE" Will Fly, Io*S;n Francisco Monday with Chaper- one on Airliner SEATTLE, Aug. 8—Irene Reen- strom, blonde and pretty 19-year- old Miss Alaska, arrived here to- day from Seward and asked a shipside welcoming party to please take her up in an elevator and give her a ride on a street car This is Mi Reenstrom’s first visit Outside since she was a tiny girl—so the committee acquiesced and gave her both the elevator and streetcar rides. The pretty lass is traveling in company with just as pretty Jane Gordon, Miss Fairbanks, who will help Miss Alaska reign at the San Francisco Exposition August 17. She was born in Seattle and at- tended the University of Washing- ton. The two Alaskan queens will fly south by airliner Monday, chap- ercned b)' Miss Lulu Fairbanks. > BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League Cincinnati 3, 7; Chicago 7, 5. American League Philadelphia 2; Boston 9. Chicago 5; Detroit 3. Washington 7; New York 4, RA “Where’s My Pockvtlmok"” e T, From high on New York's 155th Street viaduct, where the fence can be noted torn away near a light stairway. - Spectators gasped. A and raced to the car where Mrs. out and demanded: “Where’s my pillar, this auto (left), crashed to policeman shinned over the fence Edna Burdick (right), 38, stepped | pocketbook?” She didn’t want to g0 to a hospital but the policeman prevailed and she received treat- ament for minor injuries. THAT NEW DEAL SETBACK: | WHAT IT MEANS, EXPLAINED REPRESENTATIVE OF TOKYO PAPER TO COVER PLANE Flies North with PAA-Says Americans Aren’t Sympathetic Ichitaro Takata, pint sized Jap- anese edition of a newspaper man passing through Juneau today on his way to Nome to join the world- girdling Japanese aerial tour, stop- ping long enough to assert that Japanese feeling toward Americans in the Orient is “just like it used to be before the trouble in China.” However, Takata, little Nichi Nichi aviation reporter, with an embarrassed wry added: “Even though you people aren’t e\,ull\ sympathetic with us at presen Takata arrived on the Columbia this morning and flew to Fair- banks with Pacific Alaska Airways. From the Golden Heart city he will fly to Nome and join his round- the-world flying countrymen and his boss, Takeo Ohara, “the peo- ple’s envoy,” long time chief of the aviation department for the combined newspapers Osaka Main- ichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi Operates 12 Planes Airplanes to Takata are nothing new, he will proudly tell you. His newspaper combine operates 12 air- planes, he says, “for news pur- poses,” and an elaborate little fold- er he left at The Empire, says the far flying goodwill plane is crewed by six of Japan’s foremost avia- tors, all on the staff of Nichi Nichi combine. The plane, due in Nome for re- fueling after a flight from Tokyo and more northerly Nemuro on August 15, is a twin-motored trans- port monoplane that looks like well known American transport planes. It's power, the folder says, is gen- erated by Gold Star motors of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Works of 500 horsepower each, giving a cruising speed of 260 kilometers an hour. Goodwill Flight Purpose of the flight is labeled House—actually held the reins in particular attention (Continued un hespectacled | smile, | By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—You can |come as close as anybody else to| solving the third term puzzle, if| you'll just hold the 1939 Congres- sional Record up to the X-ray of | history. ‘The 1939 record—all 20 pounds of it—is proof that Presidential influ- ence with Congress is on the down grade. The President lost about as many big battles as he won on Capi- tol hill this year, notably his fight to keep American foreign policy out of the strait-jacket of law. ‘That's not a gooa sign for the New Deal. As long as congressional dis- agreements continue, he can't be sure that the New Deal will last beyond his two terms. He will be ap- | prehensive that part of this pro- gram, at least, will be discarded. Franklin D. wooseveit is defin- | itely a President with a purpose and a program, or pattern, for carrying | it out—Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Each raised a cry in the land and tried to bend the will of the nation toward his ideal. With Jefferson, it was the “Com- mon Man;"” with Jackson, “The People;” with Teddy Roosevelt, the | “Square Deal;” with Wilson, the | “New Freedom;” and with F.D.R, !the “New Deal.” PREVIOUS FIGHTS 1t is significant that our two great- est Presidents, Washington and Lin- coln, were men with a purpose, but not a program. Their purpose was to hold the nation together. So en- grossed were they in that task that | they had precious little time to cut out patterns or programs for the future. Up to Franklin D. Roosevelt, every President with both a program and | a purpose, save one, not only fought | while in office to make them stick, but also carried the struggle beyond‘ their tenure in the White House.| Oddly enough, each chose the same | course of action. Each put his chosen disciple in line for the White House, and then fought for the election of | the disciple. Only Wilson failed to do that, and | it wasn't because he didn’t want to. It was because he was a wreck, as one close to him expressed it, when the *ime came to choose a successor. Jefferson—the one man who open- ly condemned the establishment of a line of succession in the White (Continued on Pnzf ge Three) | today e ™ | Poland ! ble over TENSION 1S ' INCREASING OVERDANZIG Poland Givé?Out State- ment-Germany Makes War-like Reply ted Press) Polish and German newspapers exchanged bitter words cen- tering attention on Danzig anew,| while military forces across most of Europe engaged in war maneuvers | or prepared for drills | The Berlin newspap ttack on varned that ‘“challenges Poland would result in a ip with German weap- arning” followed trou- in the Free City| comments of a| (By Assoc from quaintanc ons.” The customs and also “inciting” Warsaw newspaper. The pretext for the attack an editorial in the conservative Wa saw newspaper Czas which said: “The guns of the Polish army are facing Danzig and will be used should the authorities of the Free | City refuse to abandon the danger- ous road they are now following |on orders from outside.” the ground 85 feet below after sliding part way down the roof of a | | Polish Customs officials on the Dan- The Warsaw newspapers said zig-East Prussian frontier have been | ordered to wear uniforms and carry 1 | fice announces that the three rifles so “all may know who they poy Today, Great Britain's anti-air- craft defenses are being manned against a make-believe attack by enemy bombers which will sweep in from the sea tonight for a test of the island’s air defenses. GREAT DRIVE ON CRIME BEGINNING INNEW YORK CITY | Attorney General Head 6-Man Are All Giv- ing Aid fo Dewey NEW YORK, Aug. 8—Federal srand Jury members are hearing the first witnesses this afternoon in what Attorney General Murphy described as the greatest drive on organized crime in the history of the United States. Attorney Cahill declined mit or deny that the firs are underworld leaders from Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago who are familiar with the manners and ac-| tions of “Leopard” Buchalter, the industrial racketeer who has evad- ed capture for more than two| years | Head man Edgar Hoover has come to New York to assist Prose cutor Dewey and Police Commis- sioner Valentine in the investiga- tion and is in conference with Jus- tice Department agents in the New | to ad- witnesses York area. Some of them have| bee hunting Buchalter since the day he droppcd out of sight. BRITISH BOMBER CRASHES; 3 DEAD LONDON, Aug. 8—The War Of- crew | members of the Royal Air Force twin-engined bomber which crashed at Beachy late yesterday have all| been killed. First reports indicated that five men were aboard the army plane. The big bomber crashed on the | edge of a cliff and plunged over the precipice into the ocean far below. A woman vacationist walking along the cliff top was killed when struck by a piece of wreckage hurled from the plane. OPERATION IS FATAL 'TO BRITISH AUTHOR LONDON, Aug. 8—Leonard Mer- rick, 75, British novelist who won| of his fellow writers, died today following an op- eration | President Roosevelt arrived here at this morning and mot- | several days’ | departments of the | market at the ING UNCONTROLLED 'ROOSEVELT LOOKS OVER 200 BILLS s Studyingnlate Measures, Passed by Congress— akes Statement .V HYDE PARK, Aug. 8 | 8:24 o'clock ored to his country home to spend work on some 200 un- signed bills prior to his New Eng- land coast vacation aboard Tuscaloosa in the closing days of Congress President Roosevelt cla ful- fillment of all of his ol his 1937 Court reorganization pro- gram, The President unexpectedly is- sued a statement saying the “at- recently made on the Supreme Court by ultra conservative mem- bers of the bar show how alarmed they prevailing.” The President’s comment was oc- casioned by his signing of the bill that created an Administrative of- ficer to oversee the affairs of Federal courts. The measure was one of seven, parts of his original proposal. Six parts have now been enacted. The seventh, the President said, has been aceomplished through the Supreme Court itself since the) @rnate killed his Supreme Court bill two years ago. The President today named four new Federal Judges. CURB EXCHANGE HAS QUIET DAY; TRADING SLACK NEW YORK, Aug. 8—Prices on the curb exchange were lower today after a session of dull trading. The market was featureless. Prices de- clined through lack of demand ra- ther than excess of supply. The curb market moved in sympathy with the big board but there was no haste to get rid of shares. market were alfected. The bond market eased lower to- | day in dull trading. Although the | tension abroad was blamed for the | lack of demand there was no rush to get rid of foreign securities. At | no time did the market break sharp- | ly, but neither did it show any rallying power. A feeble flurry of buying lifted | some market leaders to the plus| sign area just as the day's maka} was closing. Brokers said the whole average slightly lower for the day However, either a desire to place tocks in a more favorable position or a mild demand, bolstered the end. was less than half a million shares. LSS list would AI-ASKAN MEASURE i NEW ORLFANS, La, Aug - ' APPROVED BY FDR ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has approved of the bill authorizing the Secretary of In- terior to sell timber and mineral products of Alaskan lands reserved | for educational purposes. NEW YORK, Aug. 8. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine — Closing stock today is 7%, American Can 102, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 48, Harvester 52%, Kennecott New York Central 14%, Pacific 9%. 36%, DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 141.10, rails 28.76, utilities 26.55, the | The bills were passed are at the liberal ideas already | all | All| The volume [ tates to question the su! I e Miss London, and Andree are pxctured on arrival at New York, Joyce Claxton (left) Paris, They European Eyefuls for U.S. premacy of American hemmenM -fi Lorraine (right) | STEINHARDT NOW U. 5. AMBASSADOR ~ TO SOVIET RUSSIA Assumes Ch—ar—gé of Embas- sy Which Has Been Va- canf for 14 Months Lawrence Am- assumed MOSCOW, Aug. 8 Steinhardt, new United States bassador to Russia, charge of the embassy has which has | been without a chief for 14 months. Steinharde was previously Ambas- sador to Peru. He succeeds Joseph Davies, Ambassador to Belgium, - 'NET IS OUT FOR "BIG VIOLATORS" Assistant United States Attorney ( eneral Rogge, set his net today persons he described as “B lator in Louisiana political for Vio- ican- |dals. A Federal grand jury und Rogge has returned indictments against former Governor Leche, po- litical leader Seymour Weiss, and ex-University President Smith. The Federal official said today that the mvmlu,alum is pquin; CABINET (RISIS - THE NETHERLANDS - Hp speed THE Historic reported a new effor The Neth: HAGUE, Aug. 8—Christian Party Leader De Geer, to have failed today in t to form a cabinet for lands. | Queen Wilhelmina asked De Geer | [to try to form & government, after the failures by leaders of the Cath- and former Premier Col- | former Premier was understood have blocked the efforts of De Geer to form a coalition of Catholi with the third important party, the Socialists. His own group con- trols only a handful in parliament is | TERMINATING TRADE PACT WITH JAPAN IS INDICATION MORE JOBS ARE COMING UP By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. — You | could never tell from the tone of | the note terminating the U. S.-Jap-| anese trade treaty that the State Department was delivering a warn- ing left jab with indications that more was in reserve It gives the impression that Sec- | retary Hull was sitting late in his | office one night with a half eaten sandwich on a Thumbing over a handful of treaties | | | he comes to one with Japan. “Well, well,” seems to say, “this one ap- pears to be a bit out of date. Hey, bay, run over to Ambassador Horin- ouchi’s and tell him this trade treaty is so old it stinks and we want a new one.” The tone of the note it is just that correspondents had cabled home the | administration was not likely to show an especially firm attitude in its foreign affairs until the breach in the Democratic party had been healed enough to permit a show of a solid front on such things as arms| embargoes. The defeal on the arms| | embargo repeal was accepted as | blow to administration influence in | European affairs, a sign that isela- | | tion was again in the saddle. But our disposition toward isola- | tion has applied principally on the | Atlantic side. On the Pacific side it is different. Neither trade nor the fear of entangling alliances governs our relations with the Orient. Sen- timent has controlled from the be- ginning. Of course merchants with dollar investments in have had a different viewpoint. But timent and its ally, philanthro- I‘pya have been the controlling mo- tive with the public and with a long Northern | ijn’s Anti-Revolutionary Party. The|line of national administrations. U. to, 8. investments in Chima, except in the S8hanghai area, are dominant- 11y missionary and educational. Ex- cept in Shanghal and Tientsin most of [he Americans in China are mis- l(‘nn(mnml on Pnge fievrn) L | | i | | plate at his side. | the Orient| FLAMES RAGE OVER REGION ALONG COAST 'Blazes Are Reporied in Many Sections-High Wind Prevails | | | PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 8.— | Uncontrolled flames are seething today before winds southward along the Oregon Coastal range leaving a path of hot ashes where once | were green forests and fields. Other forest fires are smoulder- | ing, ready to be fanned by winds, Lor are outside of the wind zone. but roaring. Conditions are becoming critical. It is estimated that upwards of 18,000 acres have been already swept % | by the flames. There are fires raging in Wash« ington and threatening many local- | ities. One fire near the Wo!f Creek | highway traveled three miles be- tween dark and dawn, making a | total of almoat 10 mlles in 48 hours. Aflorneys for BridgesGiven ~(lear Rulings Defense Plfly Told: Jusk What Evidence May Be Introduced SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 8. | —Defense attorneys for Harry Bridges, CIO labor leader, in the present deportation hearing, receiv- ed clear-cut rulings today from presiding examiner Landis on is- {sues to be considered. | The defense received instructions it could not go extensively into ramifications of organizations or interests, hunting out subservice | activities unless it could show a di- rect connection between improper | inducements allegedly offered Gov- lernment Government to appear | against Bridges and Government officials, ANTI-AMERICAN ' FIRES' BURNING ~ BRIGHT, CHINA Troubles Flame Anew- Fate of Mission Colony Is Much in Doubt | SHANGHAI, Aug. 8—A courfer |left the Baptist Mission Hospital ‘,‘u Chenghow today in an attempt |to cross the Japanese lines and ireach Kaifeng to learn the fate |of the American mission colony there under increasing Japanese anti-American pressure Last word from the colony came a| by courier Saturday when mission- ,arxes were reported to be preparing to flee because of the anti-Ameri- can campaign at Kaifeng, which is about 40 miles east of Chenghow in northern Honan Province. | casual, Diplomacy has its tricks and this is one of them. It is the timing that counts. When the thing is all straightened out once more and everybody decides to be closest friends, there will be no hard words in print in connection with the| trealy. | FOREIC NEWSMEN URPRISED The denunciation of the treaty,| effective in x months, caught| Washington by surprise. Only a cots | Iple of days before, certain foreign | In Shansi Province, a similar | campaign is reported to have (driven two American missionaries | from their posts. The two were Mr. and Mrs. | Ralph Scoville, of Los Angeles, both of the China Inland Mission, sta- |tioned at Hwohsien, 100 miles southwest of Talyuan, provincial capital, ———— HARBOR MASTER Capt. G. A, Snelling, Harbor Mas~- ter with the Alaska Steamship Com- pany at Seattle, arrived here aboard the Columbia this morning to stop ove ¢ between boats for a visit, e oA